Senior Moment

[Kubota 2350]

Two weeks ago I opened our back storm door, it caught my shoe, stopping it from opening all the way. I stepped forward and caught the thin edge of the door square in my chest. It knocked me backwards down the 4 steps to the back door!

Later that night at work, I again walked straight into the edge of a restroom door that I only partially opened and it caught me in the exact same place.

At home again that night, I was moving through the house with the lights off so I wouldn't wake up my wife. Guess what? I walked into the edge of the bathroom door and got floored into the hallway.

As I sat there on the floor, contemplating death as surely this was a sign, I took the time to reflect on my life. Then I went and had an oatmeal cream pie with a glass of milk and all was well. :licking:

However, after two weeks now, it still feels like I may have cracked a rib. Its finally getting easier to breath deep breaths and I can start doing dips again.

Learned years ago to NOT do that, I worked nights and my wife like to change the furniture around, I tripped over the couch one night.

 

[oosik]

I've experienced all of you guys falls at one time or another. Most recently - limbing a fallen pine tree - caught my foot on a branch and fell, full weight, on my hand. That was a month ago and the hand is finally, almost back to normal. He who hasn't fallen, hasn't got out of bed yet.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Oosik, I can identify with you. Tripped over the base of a light standard in the middle of a sidewalk in Sellwood OR. Caught my whole weight on my right palm. luckily my reflexes are pretty good or I would have bashed my forehead. Urgent care thought wrist was broken so splinted it. Week later Orthopedic surgeon said only a bad bruise. He was surprised not to find a mangled wrist as that is the common result with my age group. Two weeks later and I am back to normal (mostly).

Ron

 

[rd_macgregor]

I noticed, as others have, that a memory lapse is almost always corrected by a reminder. This means that the memory is in there somewhere, you just can't access it on demand. To me, this is totally analogous to a computer with a messed-up file allocation table (FAT)...which explains my wife's shorthand reference to FATHEAD.

 

[k0ua]

I noticed, as others have, that a memory lapse is almost always corrected by a reminder. This means that the memory is in there somewhere, you just can't access it on demand. To me, this is totally analogous to a computer with a messed-up file allocation table (FAT)...which explains my wife's shorthand reference to FATHEAD.

That got a smile from this old FAT boy.

 

[Citydude]

The contractor building my pole barn ran into a layer of rock with his skid steer auger and couldn't drill the last 4 holes. That evening, I took my neighbors backhoe to the site and commenced to dig the rest of the holes. It was dark by the time I finished. I crawled down off the hoe to admire my work and then walked around to front of the tractor to relieve myself. I forgot the corner hole I dug right in front of the bucket. Nothing broke, just a nasty bruise a tweaked knee and my pride and maybe a wet pair of pants.....

 

[GoldenCityMuse]

Yeah, I have those too, in fact just recently I..., I.......

Well, lessee, I can't rightly remember what it was, but I'm shure it was good.

 

[52wej]

Guys, there is nothing wrong with your memory. The problem is that as we get older all of us have so much junk stored away in our brains that it is like an over stuffed filed cabinet where it is hard sort through all of the mess! You are not forgetful, you just have too much information to sort through! :laughing: Willie Jones

 

[MossRoad]

Learned years ago to NOT do that, I worked nights and my wife like to change the furniture around, I tripped over the couch one night.

We have a LARGE foot stool... 3'x3' solid wood box (I build 'em tough!). My wife likes to slide it over by the window so the cat can sit there and look outside during the day. Well, I like the foot stool in front of the couch... to put my feet on! So its been over by the window for several months. I moved it back to the couch. That'll teach her..... I went to work a night shift. When I came home, I slammed my toes into it, right where I put it. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

I went out to our rural property to cut firewood today. The last couple times we've been by there, we noticed a tree was down across the entrance, which is cut into a rather steep hillside. So today I took the saws and went to clear the road so I could get some firewood for this winter. The tree was up on a really steep bank cut and I was very careful to get it into manageable pieces. However, there was one piece, about 5' long, that was left on the hillside. No problem. I'll just cut 16" sections off it. As I was cutting, I was thinking to myself, there must be a branch stub or something holding this log from rolling. I shouldn't be cutting it from the downhill side. I bet it would hurt to have that log roll into your shin. I'll move after this cut....

Well, I was right. There was a branch stub sticking into the bank holding the log from rolling down the hillside. The stub was in the section I cut off. So instead of the small section rolling down the hill to my right, the 3-4' section to my left rolled into my shin. OUCH! :laughing:

Honestly... what the %^&*&*!!!! was I just thinking? DON'T STAND HERE. :confused3: